Analysis of social science survey data using SPSS and report writing

2. The report must be between 2,500 and 7,500 words (excluding Appendix). 3. Create your own tables based on SPSS output. The original SPSS output should be included in the appendix. Include a footnote for the table that you have created to give the page number in the appendix where the original SPSS output can be found. 4. The report must be focussed on some research questions. It should not be an unorganized presentation of SPSS outputs. 5. Your report must include the following a. Data and methods Give a description of the data you are going to use for the analysis. Then describe your data. The purpose of the description is to present important characteristics of the sample data and not necessarily related directly to your topic. This is to give the readers an idea about your data. Finally mention the methods (two sample, annova, regression etc.) that you will be using to analyse the data. c. Findings Present your findings here. You don’t need to present all the analysis that we covered. Pick and choose the analysis that is helpful in answering your research questions But you must have report some descriptive statistics (such as means, % , cross tables, etc.), an analysis comparing two groups or more than two groups (at least one of the following: two sample, ANNOVA, chi-square). Finally present findings from correlation or regression. When presenting the findings make sure to interpret the findings and tell you in own words what they mean. You might come up with your own explanations to make sense of the findings (no need to review literature) . d. Conclusion It is a summary of what you intended to find out in your research. the data analysis will start with the preparation of the code book in SPSS and data entry. The sample size of the study is 50.